I'm reading the first book – an Advance Reader Copy, no less! – of Helen Lowe's keenly anticipated Wall of Night series, The Heir of Night. Enjoying it enormously so far. It's classic fantasy, complete with a more-than-usually-interesting proto-heroine in Malian. But there are twists that I recognise as uniquely Helen – the semi martial-arts …
Tuesday Poem – “Lydia of the Lace Doilies”
Of course, she always had hordes of lovers so whenever I saw her, fat and placid termite-queen of the nursing home I imagined her naked, lying on a bed of animal fur, small moustachioed men, smelling of horses and sweat and woodsmoke taking turns to lose themselves …
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What I did on my holiday
Sorry about the delay in approving comments for the last Tuesday Poem. I was in Sydney. Why? Yep, The Summer King won the Mary Gilmore Prize for Poetry! The award was presented at the opening of the 2010 ASAL Conference, at my alma mater, the University of New South Wales. Actually the links to my …
Tuesday Poem – “Moore”, by Tony Curtis
When his mother came back each night from the laundry exhausted he would rub liniment into her shoulders until they eased. This was the anatomy lesson of love, the boy learning and exploring, re-forming the first body. Run your hand over the surface of her leg, the solid, ridged bronze, his vision made large – …
worlds in sand
I try to keep posts here at least tangentially related to the world of poetry and writing, but I couldn't resist sharing this. It's a 24 year old Ukranian, Kseniya Simonova, from Ukraine's Got Talent! She draws with sand on a lit table, and the images are projected onto a screen behind her. And it …
A Dark Feathered Art 